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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eytan Bernstein" data-source="post: 3779435" data-attributes="member: 40103">It's really only one chapter of crunch, followed by a whole bunch of chapters detailing different villains.  One of the purposes of this book is to give DMs NPC villains that are built as optimized as many of the player characters are. These characters aren't necessarily using combos from the optimization boards on the Wizards website, but they are built with the same feats, alternative class features, PrCs, and other mechanics that the PCs are taking. I definitely understand DMs that don't possess all the books finding this more difficult. I don't know if it made it into the final cut, but in writing the book we wrote out which class features were used that came from other sources. Thus, they could be replaced with an alternative feat or other mechanic as necessary.</blockquote>